They’ve ramped it up in recent years, sure, but I think they been dormantly evil since they came on the scene and we just didn’t realize it until the hooks were in deep.
Perfect strategy for this kinda thing, and now they can just be brazen about it. Kinda like a certain red party in a certain shithole country.
from “Not Evil” to “Prime Evil” in just a couple decades.
I didn’t work for CVS, just in the same business park.
But yea, especially in Cumberland/Woonsockett it’s a CVS town.
lmao, I can’t believe someone actually beat me to this. I don’t live there now, but used to and worked in Cumberland in that CVS business park. There’s a little pull off spot in there where food trucks setup shop during lunch hour. I’ve never seen such variety in my life!
Also, no taco truck is better than Pollos Locos, especially at 2AM while drunk stumbling out of the Scurvy.
ETA: wait a sec. Jason, DJ, Rhode Island. You don’t work in that same business park, do you?
ETA2: nvm, I stalked your posts a little bit and I very seriously doubt you are who I thought you might be. Weird coincidence, though!
Ahh, what about a cross-section of a deepdish? Show the world the sexy bits.
I dunno, might create some controversy. What are the toppings?
In terms of relative geographical location, Canada is infinitely easier for me. These three are on completely different continents.
Canada also has less work permit requirements than any of the three I mentioned. At least in my situation.
Norway has also completely closed their immigration stuff last I checked a few months ago.
ETA: where in my comments did I even hint that it was “easier to get into Canada” or claim you’re not a real country?
Thought that might be where you were headed with it. It’s definitely on my mind, but I mentioned elsewhere that I have a pretty deep personal reason to be close-ish to Washington State.
If I had complete free-choice and the means to go anywhere, it’d be Finland, Norway or Iceland.
As in, further north? east? Not CA at all?
Curious what makes you say it in a slightly cryptic way.
When a lot of Canadians say they hate the US (including myself) we are more so saying that we hate the government
I’m just so used to how the southern confederates act towards things like this. They’ll vilify an entire country like China, and then practically tar and feather any Korean that walks by because of it. Crazy shit.
As for businesses, I have started to use co-op a lot more especially for gas.
Are you speaking of this? https://canada.coop/en/
Looks like they have stuff pretty much all over CA, and even possibly some jobs to look into as well. Thanks for that tip! Co-ops are something I really miss about the western states. They’re practically illegal on the east.
I’ll do my best to stand next to a crowd of them
Good idea on the fibre map!
I’ve experienced cold-as-shit, but I’m not sure I’ve experienced proper cold yet. Lowest was -8F (-22C) and even then it only lasted for the coldest part of that night and went just above 0F (-17C) as the sun came out.
I lived in Vermont at the time, house was heated by an oil furnace. The furnace died 2 days before this happened and didn’t get replaced until a week after 🥲
Damn, the housing bits I didn’t really know about, which means that expensive is probably an understatement.
It’s almost sounding like I may need to consider anywhere else in CA. I do love remote, though. I really love remote areas. The sound of nature does wonders for my tinnitus and focus.
Ok, so stop buying online entirely then.
If you continue to say, “well, it’s hard” then it’ll never get easier or better and will remain at status quo.
It’s really easy to not shop at any of the major big box stores owned by USA megacorps, physical or digital.
The trouble is, everyone around me is either on-board with the administration or a left-wing coward. I can’t believe people actually think a single day of non-spending is going to do anything, and part of me thinks it’s the corps pushing that idea as well.
I spent time finding the small asian and latino markets around me, and that’s the only places I buy anything in the USA. I’ve been doing this for 5 years, trying to get others to follow.
No, it will never happen and I finally see that now. Even my closest friends don’t get it, they willfully give Sam Altman and Google money every month. This place is rekt and I’m losing my mind.
I feel like I either need to find a Canadian or Mexican friend to defect to, or just go ahead and pull my own trigger.
He’s greasy enough, he don’t need anymore oil.